I applaud this, I’ve been ranting about this since the results were known. It’s gotten to the point that a cousin deleted me from Facebook from saying simply what happened. I understand pain and sadness but I don’t understand this “vieja de Altamira” irrational behaviour.

I am sure I am gonna get trolled but here it goes anyway.
I actually don’t see what’s the big deal with this kids (for the pics I’ve seen they seem to be under 25) protesting in Altamira. 200 people burning trash out of 6 million is just nothing. Let them be. They will get their frustation out and go home.
For me the biggest problem here is not them, it’s that programs like La Hojilla can exits and pseudo-democratic country.

Its not only some kids in the Plaza. Listen to several pundits who for some unknown reason have public notoriety cannibalizing the opposition because of the results and insinuating fraud and that the MUD sold out because they don’t like the results. Of course that we need to reflect on the results and what happened and rectify the mistakes that were made. But we need to stop being our wost enemies.

You all here know I am a very atypical oppo guy. But, differences and all, I am proud and supportive of the campaign that was run by Henrique et al. It was good, fair and a great effort. To see it tarnished like this incensed me, pretty much in the same way that incenses me the tarnishing of the ideals of social justice by a personality cult.

Ay si ay si, atypical oppo guy! The only Valera-bred geek living abroad who opposed Chavez!
Excellent piece Guido, you hit it out of the park. The phrase “Se van a ver bellos en La Hojilla” is just so good, probably even good enough to make some of these people wake up from their delusion, but maybe not Goicoechea and Medina, those guys might be beyond repair.

Knowing that the rest of the oppo and commenters here care about socialist Zionism and kibbutzim as a model worth studying and that the co-ops in Emilia Romagna are the rage in Weston really put a smile on my face.

And other upper middle class parishes such as el Cafetal also registered higher levels of abstention than the national mean. The Petare parish (where Henrique won by 7 points) had a lower abstention that either Chacao o el Cafetal. That’s why I think that the reading of the results is much more complicated than whats going around.

Son unos decerebrados! I’ve seen the arguments of this “fraude” theories, today i saw a video that a guy showed an Act from a voting machine that stated that Reina Sequera got no votes and there was 2 void(?) votes and the in the CNE website it says that the number of votes for Reina Sequera is 1 (OMG) and the amount of void votes is… 3!! (DoubleOMG) and because of that the very “clever” guy said “Hubo fraude en mi mesa… ahi esta la prueba” well… LOL! What the guy failed to see was the votes made to unidad democratica y Piedra! Lets not even talk about the “regla de tres” theory… those people need to go back to 6th grade.

Very good…. But in a “democrática” country everybody and the cat is supposedly free to vent in their own style. Or not? I rather see this than the cochinada that the red zombie sold out masses leave behind in their wake, after a bus rally of their “corazón de la patria” ma$ter, iin our “chequera mata galán” country.

Osguido I don’t agree with you papi. The time to remain calm is over. As opposition we have been trying to ackowledge our own mistakes and waiting results from the autocritic for many years and still results are not visible. Not because we are not efficient enough as a political force, but because the chavismo keeps playing an unfair game to us and “nos pasa el guevo por la nariz” everytime they want. Results in Zulia and Nueva Esparta are simply impossible, even if local goverments are not as efficient as in the past. Chavismo power is making fun of us again and the protests are valid. This election instead of leavinga sense of unity, divides and radicalize even more the majority of the country that is against this komunist state. We can’t continue thinking about how the chavismo sees us, because you know what? If we stay calm or fight, either way they are seeing us as the apatridas, pitiyanquis, burgueses when the reality is the other way. The fight is just starting as well as the ressistance.

It’s the same kind of thing I would tell to the major league fools who go protesting because of some caricature or movie about a Prophet, and just for the same reasons, not because I agree with them or care about their God or Prophet or anything they might believe but because I hate to see people being so completely unwise.

Now you incensed me against these guys. Maria Alejandra Lopez is alive and well, and losing us every election future and present she humanly can.

Well, it tends to be a comment from people outside the country, whose disgust is understandable, but essentially they’re like cursing their own relatives still living here, and half the country who is not Chavista, and the portion who doesn’t stand for the stupidity justly despised..

I think that since you can not bully a Chavista, you take your frustration against these people, so you criticize the action of these people and you’d think that you will feel good with yourself.

But I digress, I yet have to see the first comment/article of this blog that really talks to the heart of chavismo base, or to the Venezuelan people in general for that matter. Is not the goal of the people that writes posts in this blog to have a sense of auto-critic with the opposition, it has been a windows to let it out your frustration and your take against the chavista government, even for the tiniest and ridiculous thing. For that, chavista like to provoke you and make fun of your take.

What is the difference between you and those guys that went to Altamira?? the only reason you are not supporting this protest is that it was a tiny and little protest. Otherwise you will be plastering the same thing that they are saying in this and others blogs. So seriously guys give it a rest, nobody is buying your stance.